The browser that you tried out once a few years ago will shut down for good.

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Remember Rockmelt, the social media Web browser that made a brief splash in 2010? Yeah, it took us a minute, too.

But Yahoo hasn’t forgotten it—Sunnyvale just ponied up a cool “$60 to $70 million” (according to the Wall Street Journal) for what appears to be a pure play for the company’s tech team, including veterans from Netscape and OpsWare.

The company’s leadership wrote a blog post on the acquisition Friday morning, saying, “Yahoo! and Rockmelt share a common goal: To help people discover the best content from around the Web. In our short four and a half years at Rockmelt, we’ve learned a lot about how you like to browse the Web, discover content, and share the great stuff you’ve found.”

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Cyrus Farivar
Cyrus is a Senior Tech Policy Reporter at Ars Technica, and is also a radio producer and author. His latest book, Habeas Data, about the legal cases over the last 50 years that have had an outsized impact on surveillance and privacy law in America, is out now from Melville House. He is based in Oakland, California. Emailcyrus.farivar@arstechnica.com//Twitter@cfarivar